{"product_id":"ghost-dance-paperback","title":"Ghost Dance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarole Maso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she has a fine ear and her literary gift is impressive.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1986, \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance\u003c\/i\u003e is the first in a line of relentlessly experimental and highly esteemed works by Carole Maso. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVanessa Turin's family has been broken up by an event so devastating she cannot bear to face it straight on. Her mother, the brilliant and beautiful poet Christine Wing, seems simply to have disappeared, and her gentle, silent father also vanishes. In \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, the reader experiences firsthand the dimensions of Vanessa's longing, the capabilities of her imagination, the persistence of her memory, and the ferocity of her love as she struggles to retrieve her family, to reclaim her country, and to come to terms with overwhelming sorrow.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarole Maso\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books: \u003ci\u003eGhost Dance, The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Defiance, Aureole, Break Every Rule, The Room Lit by Roses, Beauty Is Convulsive\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMother \u0026amp; Child\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received numerous awards, including the Berlin Prize and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction. Maso is currently a professor of Literary Arts at Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42690799697983,"sku":"9781640092440","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/508aa763ec2c307aabfc1a40e13ff27f_dc5f2d35-6b4b-46f1-a3b1-4d9d382549e4.webp?v=1764990159","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/ghost-dance-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}